Susanne Klein is an EPSRC manufacturing fellow and an associate professor at the Centre for Fine Print Research. She is a physicist by training and has lived and worked in the UK for the last 24 years. She studied physics in Germany and came as a Royal Society Research fellow to the University of Bristol where she worked on 19th century optics. In 1998 she joined Hewlett Packard Labs and specialised in liquid crystal display technology, new materials for 3D printing and optical cryptography. Her research interests now are 19th century photomechanical processes and their 21st century incarnations, especially Woodburytype, photolithography and Lippmann photography.